The story
Audio tour · Hasankeyf Castle
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You're standing at Hasankeyf, on the Tigris river in Turkey's Batman Province. An ancient town once stood here, built on and into the rocks. Its names say it all. In Aramaic it was Ḥesno d-Kifo, fortress of stone, and in Arabic Hisn Kayfa, rock fortress.
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